Try the Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 CTP 2 – The Visual Studio Team highlight their CTP Release of Update 2 to Visual Studio 2013, linking to the various announcements, Knowledge base articles, and downloads, along with providing the information for giving feedback on the release.

Announcing new Web Features in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 CTP2 – Xinyang Qiu focuses on the Web Development features in VS 2013 Update 2 CTP2, including project level SASS Support, JSON Item and Editor, enhanced Azure support, and update to LESS and MVC/SPA tempaltes, Knockout Intellisense, along with the inclusion of the latest bits of the ASP.NET framework.

Announcing TypeScript 1.0RC – Jonathan Turner announces the Release Candidate of TypeScript 1.0, including the new simplified tye system, improved ordering and merging of overloads and updated out of the box typings.

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A new look for .NET Reference Source – Alok Shriram shares a detailed look at the new .NET Reference Source Browser, including a short vidoe, and discussion of the source’s use in debugging, as well as outlining the future for reference source.

Baby Steps on Android with Xamarin – Part 2 – Mike Taulty continues his series looking at migrating a .NET Windows Store application over to Android using Xamarin. In this post Mike goes over the setup of the Xamarin / Android development environment.

Define An API By Consuming It – Erik Dietrich discusses the process of defining an API, and how it can be a difficult thing to define, looking at a technique based on trying to use an API to help define it.